On my site, I have a dozen or so old group inboxes showing up in my messages even though I decided not to use them and have deleted all the messages that were in them. Other users who are in these groups also see the group inboxes. Is there anything that can be done to make them go away? I’d be grateful. 
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The issue of empty group inboxes and archives showing up even after all messages have been deleted is discussed. tobiaseigen is experiencing this problem and has tried toggling message settings and deleting all messages, but the inboxes remain. sam suggests checking for archived messages, but tobiaseigen confirms there are none.
tobiaseigen requests a fix, and techAPJ creates a PR to resolve the issue, which is later merged. After updating to the latest version, empty group inboxes should be cleared up in ~12 hours. Alternatively, users can manually trigger the weekly task by going to /sidekiq/scheduler and searching for Weekly to resolve the issue quickly.
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Any ideas here @sam?
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Change the group not to accept messages?
Toggling “who can message and @mention this group” from “Everyone” to “Nobody” doesn’t seem to make any difference. I also have many other groups that have never received a message that don’t have a group inbox. It seems to just be the ones that previously received messages.
Are there any messages in archive?
Nope.. no messages in archive. I made sure to delete all messages in the inbox and in the archive for each group mailbox.
@tobiaseigen is this still happening?
@sam have you had a brainwave of what might be happening here in the last month-or-so?
yup - still looks the same, with a long list of group inboxes and archives that when clicked on are empty.
@sam I’d love a fix for this at some stage. Don’t know if others are affected but it’s not great in my community and members are complaining about it.
When you get a chance, can you let me know if there’s a solution for this? Even a database query I can run to just delete the old message inboxes containing no messages for those who have them?
I felt hopeful that we could put this baby to rest until messaging gets some love, now that we have this:
Sure @techapj can you take a look at this?
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Sent a PR for it:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5209
EDIT: PR is merged.
@tobiaseigen after updating to latest version, the empty group inboxes will be cleared up in ~12 hours.
Feel free to flag this post if the issue persists.
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Note you can manually kick off the weekly task by going to /sidekiq/scheduler searching for Weekly and triggering that.
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Oh right. Also, I just noticed that this process will run in EnsureDbConsistency job which runs every 12 hours, so the process should be quick.
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